Whitehall Farmhouse And Adjoining Dovecote

Whitehall Farmhouse and the adjoining dovecote is a 16th-century open hall house featuring a storeyed west crosswing. An early 17th-century floor and chimney were inserted in the hall, and a mid-19th-century brick west wing connects to an early 19th-century large flint dovecote to the west via a tiled loggia. The farmhouse has a timber frame on a high sill, roughcast exterior with stucco on the front (south), a red brick west wing, and a flint dovecote with brick dressings. The roofs are steep and covered with old red tiles.

Originally, the house was L-shaped, facing south, with the storeyed west crosswing projecting to the rear. The hall range has two bays with an open truss, while the crosswing contains a cellar and two rooms on each floor. An inserted chimney is located against the east face of the central truss, with a stair to the south and an axial beam supporting the inserted floor. The stair is positioned in the projecting north end of the crosswing. The building is two-storeys high with a cellar and has two rooms in the 19th-century brick west wing, which features gabled ends projecting to the north and south, along with a large internal chimney.

The south front exhibits a Gothick character from the 19th century, featuring cusped bargeboards with finials on the left gable and a dormer on the hall range. The windows are three-light cast iron lattice casements with a wider middle light, and there is a half-glazed door beneath a pentice. Inside, the structure reveals an exposed frame with jowled posts, a clasped-purlin roof, and curved wind-braces.

The large rectangular Gothick dovecote has four parallel roofs running north-south across its narrower dimension, with the middle pair serving a two-storey section. The south side features a large pointed-arched shallow recess flanked by small windows, with two windows above. These windows are pointed, with two-lights and leaded square-headed designs, and dark weatherboarding in the head. Each single-storey gabled flanking section has a similar window at the second end. In front of the dovecote, there is a terracotta pedestal for a sundial, adorned with clustered gothic shafts and small angels supporting the octagonal head.